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Oil, butter and vanish on canvas - signed by the artist

Wilhelm Sasnal (Poland, 1972) is a contemporary artist known for his diverse body of work, including painting, photography, and film. His art often reflects on everyday life, mass media, and historical events, employing a variety of styles and techniques. Sasnal's works are featured in major international collections, such as the Guggenheim Museum and Tate Modern.

Wilhelm Sasnal

Vanish and Butter, 2007

Name: Vanish and Butter, 2007
SKU: 5514

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Painting

PaintingPainting is the process of applying media to a surface, using a tool such as a brush. The term refers to both the action and the resulting object. Artists use many tools to paint, such as brushes, airbrushes, palette knives, sponges or fingers and hands.

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Mixed Media

Mixed MediaMixed media refers to artwork that incorporates more than one medium within a single piece. Unlike multimedia art, which combines distinct forms of visual art and often includes elements like sound, video, or digital media, mixed media focuses on combining traditional art materials, such as paint, ink, and collage. Mixed media art allows artists to achieve a wide range of effects and textures by layering and blending different materials.

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My mind is incapable of producing fiction. I always try to draw on things that already exist.
- Wilhelm Sasnal

Considered to be one of the most successful and prominent contemporary Polish artists, Wilhelm Sasnal is a painter, film-maker, illustrator and poster-artist. As a painter, Sasnal’s subjects span a wide range including mundane, every-day objects; historical figures, portraits of friends and family, and views of Kraków, his home town. Among Sasnal’s most popular works are his portraits of women – this work serves to explore the notion of modern beauty and highlights the constructs within society, media and fashion that tend to represent beauty, as opposed to the actual physicality of the women themselves; Sasnal alludes to the eventual decay of all beauty by depicting all of his female subjects to be smoking. His work tends to be centred around the history of art, and the functioning of modern society under the influence of mass media, an analysis of reality as we understand it – he has stated: “I don’t know where history ends and the present moment begins. It’s like liquid, or sometimes like mud.”

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